Best Black
Lab (Labrador Retriever)
Dog Names by Color

The beautiful, mysterious and enticing
color of the Black Lab deserves a name that is equally deep
and meaningful. There are many precious materials that are
black, there are interesting-sounding words for the color
black from foreign languages and there are words that mean
almost the same, but sound very cool as a good puppy
name. Here are the best black lab dog names that play on
their unique color:

Other words for black or things that are
black-colored that sound like good Black Lab puppy names:

Ebony - a very strong and durable
kind of wood

Jet - a compact black coal that is
used to make beads and jewelry

Obsidian - volcanic rock that looks
like black glass

Onyx - a gemstone that has bands of
black and white

Raven - not just the bird, it
describes a deep black color

Sable - the color black, especially
when used in heraldry (royal crests)

Slate - a special rock that splits
into sheets and is dark grey or black

Inky - like what's in your pen

Midnight - the darkest, most
mysterious part of the night

Sooty - what builds up in your
chimney

Dusky - the time of night as the sun
is setting

Cloudy - when the sun is obscured and
its darker

Nebula - a cloud of dust and
materials in outer space

Foreign languages are a wonderful source
of good black lab dog names. Each of these names are the color
"black" in that language. First is the foreign name,
then how to pronounce it, then the country that it's from.

Izi (easy) Albanian

Kalo (kay-low) Bengali

HēisŤ (hey-sah) Chinese

Crn (sern) Croatian

Cerny (chur-nee) Czech

Itim (ih-teem) Filipino

Noire (nwah) French

Shavi (shaw-vee) Georgian

Schwarz (shwarts) German

Mavros (mahv-rose) Greek

Kaylum (KAY loom) Gujarati

Kala (call-lah) Hindi

Fekete (feh keh tay) Hungarian

Hitam (high-tam) Indonesian/Malay

Nero (knee-row) Italian

Kuro (koo-rah) Japanese

Kappu (cap-poo) Kannada

Melns (melnz) Latvian

Crna (sur-nah)Macedonian

Czarny (zar-knee) Polish

Preto (pray-toe) Portuguese

Cierny (chiernee) Slovak

Nyeusi (nyoo-see) Swahili

Aren't these some great, exotic names
for your Black Lab dog or puppy? And, you'll sound so smart
when telling your friends what the puppy's name means!